Examples of using Flexibilities in English and their translations into Arabic
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Ten years ago, the Doha Declaration on the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights(TRIPS) Agreement and Public Health confirmed the right of States to take advantage of flexibilities to protect public health and ensure access to treatment.
Significant flexibilities should be provided for the most vulnerable developing countries such as LDCs and single commodity exporters(SCEs) to decide what products would be subject to commitments, the commitments they would make and the rules and disciplines that would apply.
In the case of non-agricultural market access, it is particularly important that any reduction formula adopted does not infringe the principle of special and differential treatment and the flexibilities available to developing countries in the August 2004 Framework Agreement.
A possible two-track approach to the negotiations was recently suggested whereby modalities negotiations would continue in parallel with a scheduling exercise for" outcome testing" for greater clarity on the use of flexibilities.
A number of countries have already used TRIPS flexibilities to promote access to essential medicines, but even greater action will be needed,
the public health-related aspects of the TRIPS Agreement, aimed at ensuring that developing countries have the necessary information to use the flexibilities under the Agreement.
The Agreement includes so-called flexibilities, which allow developing countries to use norms compatible with the Agreement in a way that enables them to take measures to promote economic development
In this context, WIPO has been providing legal advice, undertaking advisory and outreach missions on intellectual property laws and organizing national, regional and international seminars and workshops on flexibilities and public policies in the patent field.
To expand policy flexibilities for industrial development purposes, developing countries have sought to make certain types of subsidies" non-actionable"(permissible) under WTO rules such as those for regional development, research and development,
the development process for developing countries, but those countries must be able to take advantage of all the flexibilities available within the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights(TRIPS).
Flexibilities" from the formula for developing countries consist in applying either half the formula cut
UNCTAD is providing advice and capacity building to selected developing countries on how their policies could be structured to take advantage of flexibilities available to them under international treaties and thereby develop local supply capacities in the pharmaceutical sector.
As noted, some developed countries want to link the depth of cuts to be made by developing countries to options to use other flexibilities, especially Paragraph 8 flexibilities, but such a linkage is rejected
It has been difficult to progress on the formula without engaging in negotiations on specific numbers to be included as actual levels for the coefficients and the numbers to be used in paragraph 8 of the NAMA framework to provide flexibilities for developing countries.
Some of these proposals link the depth of tariff cut by developing countries to the options to use other flexibilities provided in the NAMA Framework, so that the deeper the tariff cut, the greater the flexibility in binding coverage and levels.
In particular, the High Commissioner notes that, while increased flexibilities in trade rules will give many countries the space to implement policies to promote the right to food and the right to development, many countries lack adequate finance to do so.
that a coefficient of 19 with flexibilities would induce greater tariff cuts for DCs than a coefficient of 26 without flexibilities.
The countries concerned had made their acceptance of 28.5 per cent binding level conditional on the coverage rate of 70 per cent while developed countries suggested that the binding coverage should be raised to 95 per cent in line with paragraph 8 flexibilities.
the Group of 22 expressed concern that the formula for developed countries provided flexibilities to not reduce high tariffs by a substantial amount.
Which provide flexibilities for the protection of public health, and, in particular, to promote access to medicines for all, and encourage the provision of assistance to developing countries in this regard.